Quotes starting with B
Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter B, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Bad gains are true losses. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Be careful what you ask for; you may get it. -- unknown (Thanks to J. Martin)
Be careful what you wish for. -- unknown
Be ever vigilant but never suspicious. -- English (on vigilance)
Be gracious in defeat. -- unknown
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home. -- unknown
Be just before you are generous. -- E. Haywood (1745)
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. -- Jimmy Durante
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel and countenance. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Be not overcome by evil but repay evil with good. -- Bible
Be not water, taking the tint of all colors. -- Syrian (on authenticity)
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower still in changing. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Be sure you are right, then go ahead. -- Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
Be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Ghandi
Be the first in the field and the last to the couch. -- Chinese (on work)
Be true to yourself. -- unknown
Bear and forbear. -- unknown
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. -- Greek Proverb
Beauty is only skin deep. -- Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. -- French (on beauty)
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. -- Egyptian (on caution and care)
Before healing others, heal yourself. -- Gambian (on health and wellness)
Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage keep one eye shut. -- Jamaican (on marriage)
Beggars can't be choosers. -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Beginning is easy; continuing, hard. -- Japanese (on permanence and change)
Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance. -- Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
Being happy is better than being king. -- Hausa (West African) (on comparable worth)
Believe in yourself. -- unknown
Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. -- unknown
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. -- Chinese (on comparable worth)
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within it. -- Arabic (on friends and foes)
Better late than never. -- Roman Proverb
Better one true friend than a hundred relatives. -- Italian (on friendship)
Better slip with foot than tongue. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Better ten times ill than one time dead. -- Yiddish (on health and wellness)
Better the devil you know than the one you don't -- R. Taverner (1539)
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Better to ask the way than go astray. -- unknown
Better to ask twice than to lose your way. -- Danish (on practicality)
Better to be safe than sorry. -- Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
Better to give than to receive. -- Bible (Acts 20:35)
Better yourself before others. -- Darren Bateman
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome person. -- Iranian (on caution and care)
Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Beware of the person with two faces. -- Dutch (on hypocrisy)
Beware the door with too many keys. -- Portuguese (on vigilance)
Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden (1631-1700)
Beware the Greeks bearing gifts. -- Virgil (70-19 BC) "I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts."
Beware the person with nothing to lose. -- Italian (on prudence)
Birds of a feather, flock together. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
Blood is thicker than water. -- German Proverb
Bloom where you're planted. -- unknown
Boys, be ambitious. -- William Smith Clark (1826-1886)
Brains are better than brawn. -- unknown
Bread, oil, Salt and Heart -- Albanian ( on honoring the guest) thanks to kravetsmaksim
Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. -- Native American Saying (on war and peace)
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. -- Albert Camus
Butterflies come to pretty flowers. -- Korean (on beauty)
Buyer beware. -- Latin Proverb "Caveat emptor"
Buying on credit is robbing next year's crop. -- African American (on buying and selling)
By crawling, a child learns to stand. -- Hausa (West African) (on experience)
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. -- Ashanti (West African) (on persistence)